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Telling Chinese American Librarians' Stories: Lois Mai Chan

Lois Mai Chan (Chinese: 麥麟屏, July 30, 1934 – August 20, 2014), beloved professor, researcher, and author in the field of cataloging and classification, retired in 2011 after 45 years of service to the University of Kentucky. In her career, she…

Tags: Biographies, CALA, CALA founder, CALA pioneer, Filmed interviews, Knowledge classification, Librarianship, Library pioneer, Life histories, Video, Women as librarians

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Information Representation

Research Fronts in Library and Information Science (LIS) in the West is a volume in the book series titled Research Fronts in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the West. Based on the analysis of a significant amount of recently published research…

Tags: Information architecture, Knowledge, Classification of, Library literature, Meta-data, Subject indexing

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Growth and New Directions: CALA Academic Resources and Repository System

Growth and New Directions_ CALA Academic Resources and Repository.pdf

The Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) was established in 2013 and has been growing gradually ever since. To seek sustainable and greater growth in the future, the CALASYS 2019-2020 Committee…

Tags: CALA, CALASYS, Cataloging, Chinese American Librarians Association, Digital Collections, Digital repositories, Functionality, Institutional Repository, Interfaces, Meta-data, Omeka, Plug-ins, Standards compliance, Tags

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CALASYS Metadata Guideline Version 2 (2021)

The CALA Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS)’ metadata guidelines. It's created to provide guidance in describing resources to be deposited into CALASYS.

Tags: CALA, CALASYS, Cataloging, Chinese American Librarians Association, Contribution, Digital repositories, Dublin Core metadata, Institutional Repository, Meta-data, Metadata Guidelines, Omeka, Self-Contribution, Standards compliance

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CALASYS Self-Contribution Training (2021)

Training document on how to self-contribute to the CALA Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS). It's created by the CALASYS Committee.

Tags: CALA, CALASYS, Cataloging, Chinese American Librarians Association, Contribution, Digital Collections, Digital repositories, Dublin Core metadata, Institutional Repository, Meta-data, Omeka, Self-Contribution, Standards compliance, Subjects

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Opening CALASYS to All Members

Since the Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources and Repository System (CALASYS, https://ir.cala-web.org/) was initiated in 2013, its collections have grown gradually by way of the Committee’s curation and entries with…

Tags: CALA, CALASYS, Chinese American Librarians Association, Collection development, Digital Collections, Digital repositories, Institutional Repository, Member engagement, Member participation, Meta-data, Omeka, Self-Contribution

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Teaching a cataloging/metadata course in a changing world: Experience and reflection

The authors use a case study to discuss their experiences and perspectives in teaching a cataloging and metadata course in a library school.

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Teaching

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Reflections in teaching a LIS course in the changing world

As Catalog/Metadata Librarians and adjunct faculty at the LIS program of a public co-educational research university, we rethink what skills and knowledge LIS students seek to gain from the class Metadata Creation for Information Organization, and…

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Teaching

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Transition from the face-to-face to the online lecturing for a LIS course “Metadata Creation for Information Organization”: outlook and preparation

As a Library and Information Science (LIS) lecturer, co-teaching a traditional (face-to-face) course “Metadata Creation for Information Organization”, the lecturer deliberates on moving from traditional to online teaching, lots of changes and…

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Content management system, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Online teaching, Teaching

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CALASYS Self-Contribution Training

Training on how to self-contribute to the Chinese American Librarians Association Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS). It's conducted by the CALASYS Committee. CALA President Ray Pun delivered the opening message for the training…